Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize longlist picks 12 power-packed titles
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The Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, instituted by the New India Foundation (NIF) in 2018, for the best book-length work of non-fiction about India announced its longlist of 12 titles for the 2020 prize. The announcement was made online on Wednesday by writer and historian Ramachandra Guha, one of the members of the jury. A shortlist of 6 will be announced on 16 November.
From a biography of V.D. Sarvarkar to an investigative book on the pharma industry, the books cover a wide and eclectic ground. Written by scholars, journalists and activists, the titles were picked by the jury, consisting of Niraja Jayal Gopal, Ramachandra Guha, Srinath Raghavan, Nayanjot Lahiri, Nandan Nilekani and Manish Sabharwal.
December 24, 2020
Professor at UC Santa Barbara Amit Ahuja wins Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2020 for his book ‘Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties Without Ethnic Movements’.Photo:
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Political Science Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara Amit Ahuja, was awarded the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2020 for his book on Dalit representation in India, ‘Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties Without Ethnic Movements’, New India Foundation (NIF) announced on Dec. 10.
The jury of the award for this year announced two winners. Jairam Ramesh, Member of Parliament representing Karnataka state is the co-winner for his book, ‘A Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of V.K. Krishna Menon’.
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Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2020 jointly awarded to Jairam Ramesh, Amit Ahuja s works The Prize, established in 2018, recognises and celebrates excellence in non-fiction writing about Independent India by writers of all nationalities. FP Staff December 10, 2020 13:26:10 IST
The New India Foundation (NIF) Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize was on Thursday, 10 December, awarded jointly to Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California Amit Ahuja for his book
Mobilizing the Marginalised: Ethnic Parties without Ethnic Movements, and Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh for
A Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of VK Krishna Menon.
The 2020 winners will share the prize money of Rs 15 lakhs for their respective books and will each receive the Book Prize trophy.
Amit Ahuja, an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California-Santa Barbara and Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh were on Thursday declared the joint winners of the Rs. 15 lakh Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize for .